News

Share your experience of trading during the Covid-19 crisis and enable the Alliance to identify trade facilitation interventions that can help you trade more easily

New tool offers actions to tackle the barriers to trade that women face

Since the Covid-19 crisis began earlier this year, border agencies, logistics companies and traders have been exploring at pace how they can leverage technology to protect their people from the virus while keeping goods moving across borders. Ali Al Shidhani, Vice President of Technology, and Hilal Al Kharusi, Senior Strategist, at ASYAD Group, explain how the crisis has helped accelerate digital adoption in Oman’s ports.

In this episode of Trading Thoughts, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) discusses how the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation is tapping into the skills, expertise, and resources of business, to advance development solutions for all.

The Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation and ICC India are bringing together Indian business leaders for an insightful exchange of ideas and strategies to strive and thrive in these uncertain times. During this webinar we will explore challenges faced by Indian companies due to Covid-19, discuss innovative strategies to address them, reflect on the importance of trade facilitation, and discuss the role of the Alliance in making international trade simpler, faster, and more cost-effective.

The Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation has this month bolstered its steering group with the addition of two trade and customs experts from the business world.

The Covid-19 outbreak has highlighted the vital importance of smooth, efficient trade in getting essential goods such as medical supplies, to those who need them, particularly in times of crisis.

The IT systems of Brazil’s national standards agency and its single window connect to make trade simpler and faster for government and business.

Alongside the Moroccan Ministry of Industry and Trade, the National Ports Agency (ANP) and the Moroccan private sector the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation is expanding its work in Morocco.

International agri-food trade with Morocco is set to become faster and more cost-effective for importers and exporters as the country introduces electronic phytosanitary certificates. The international electronic exchange of ‘e-phytos’ was launched on 26 March, making Morocco one of the first African countries to fully integrate and use ePhyto within their national trade system.

If you are working in trade, whether in the public or private sector, please take a moment to fill out a short survey on the challenges related to trade processes being faced by governments and businesses as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

International women’s day is an opportunity to reflect on solutions to achieving gender equality goals. One such route to women’s empowerment is by providing opportunities for women to trade and ensuring that the benefits of trade facilitation reform – making trade faster, easier and more cost-effective – reach women around the world.

A new licensing framework for customs clearing agents has been agreed in Zambia, marking the end of phase one of a project aimed at making trade simpler, faster and more cost-effective.

A delegation of Moroccan officials and business representatives visited France in January to learn about the automated traffic management technologies used in the port of Marseille Fos. The visit was jointly organised by the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation, which is currently leading a project to digitise port operations at the Morocco’s ports, and the National Port Agency of Morocco.

Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation completes first project aimed at making trade simpler, faster and more cost-effective.